LAVAL, Que. – Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff ridiculed the latest Tory promise Thursday to offer improvements to Tax Free Savings Accounts several years down the road.
After touring a seniors residence in this suburb, north of Montreal, Ignatieff told reporters he was amused that Conservative leader Stephen Harper has now done this three times.
“I mean what is this?” Ignatieff asked, before launching into his own impression of Harper. “A Tax Free Savings Account in five years, when rain water is beer, when pigs fly and when I’ve bought those jets, and I’ve cut the corporate taxes of my friends. Come back we might have something interesting for you. We might allow you to get a gym pass. You know? Really great stuff.”
In contrast, he held up his Liberal party platform and said that Canadians could expect to see a Liberal government delivering its promises right away.
“It happens now,” he said. “We get a Liberal government, we get a Liberal budget we can do this now, we can help families now, today…. Not in five years, and not when rain water turns into beer.”
Ignatieff also indicated he was skeptical about Conservative leader Stephen Harper’s office offering an apology to a woman who was recently ejected from a Conservative rally in London.
He said the problem isn’t about apologies but rather about the way Conservatives and their government have treated Canadians.
“It’s not just a problem about one student at Western Ontario,” Ignatieff said. “The issue is the whole relationship of that campaign to the citizens of Canada.”
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